Posted on 10/13/2020 9:29:29 PM PDT by bitt
Most of the recent demonstrations have not had that problem. The 3M22 Zircon is based in part on the Avangard hypersonic glide vehicle installed on Russian ICBMs and the US has witnessed this vehicle function as part of New START.
Could.be their one vulnerability is slowness.
L8r
What ever happened to keeping such information secret?
Why would you want to bring back the missile equivalent of a 1979 Corvette? There are off the shelf civilian missile systems today that go faster, have greater precision and are far cheaper. The Indians currently have the Agni-V ICBM , which incorporates recent commercial space technology and routinely hits ~10m CEP with a single warhead.
“What ever happened to keeping such information secret?”
That’s secret.
ICBMs are actually easier to intercept these days. We’re not the only one to come up with workable ABM systems, and China apparently actually even has an active ASAT laser system that could be used against ICBMs.
A hypersonic surface skimming cruise missile is a lot harder to detect and stop unless your assets happen to be looking in exactly the right direction at time of launch.
No one has ever built a 100 megaton nuke, and there wouldn’t be any way to launch something that heavy - let alone a rocket with several of those. Besides, given modern targeting technology, no one needs anything near that destructive, it serves no purpose.
It takes second place to letting others know that we are catching up in the missile gap. Until this thing is deployed, we do not have any hypersonic weapons systems, whereas our enemies or people who would sell to our enemies have had systems deployed or in development for decades. We don’t even have any *supersonic* cruise missiles, something that China, Russia and India (among others) have demonstrably had for decades.
So Evil and wrong to do such a thing.
War is hell. They officially threaten all the time, THATS evil.
Joking about taking out a Chinese dam here as a Freeper, isn’t. JMHO YMMV.
This is hard for me to comprehend. I began work on hypersonic technologies 30 years ago next April. Billions of dollars spent in the 1990s and we’re not there yet. Leave it to the government.
That’s so cool to read that this was made for a B-52.
Growing up outside of Ellsworth AFB in the 1960s, we knew we had 15 minutes to tell our loved ones goodbye, get out the lawn chairs, and watch the show. The outgoing Minutemen missiles would have departed before the Soviet missiles would have re-entered above the Dakotas.
But does it have a child safety lock feature?
My point is that 40 years ago we had hypersonic missiles. Everyone today acts as though this is new tech - it’s not.
Once again, no one learns history, and now we get to repeat it due to ignorance.
We don't need them
Yeah, terminal approach is still generally at treetop height to avoid terminal area air defense. Look at the old Phoenix AAM flight profile, it doesn’t fly direct but climbs way out first to get the range it needs. Same thing here.
“My point is that 40 years ago we had hypersonic missiles. Everyone today acts as though this is new tech - it’s not.”
It is new tech. These ‘missiles’ carry no oxygen.
Yeah, about that. The F-35 is a lot less stealthy than some people think, and if someone kills the AWACS way back, the stealth is gone when the F-35 has to radiate. Strategic stealth is dead anyway, thanks to the Australians.
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